What is our purpose and meaning? What are we moving towards? In one of his final television interviews Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, author of "Man's Search for Meaning" explains how Logotherapy's concepts of meaning and self-transcendence contrast the deterministic views of modern...

I used to wake up late on a Sunday, and go to the nearest bar around noon. I was grabbing a drink, I was hanging out for the game, I was eating lunch. I was staying longer for the afternoon game. I was running to mass really quick at night, squeezing it in, then getting back home and watching more...

We hope you enjoy this fascinating talk from Professor Arthur Brooks on the pursuit of happiness, and why it seems hard to come by in today's culture.

Wherever you go… you’re still there. Most of us don’t realize how much of our lives are built around trying to escape ourselves. We stay busy. We stay entertained. We stay scrolling, watching, working, planning, talking — anything to avoid being alone in the quiet with our own thoughts. Because...

When was the last time you experienced loneliness? Do you recall the feeling? The enveloping ache and the swarm of emotions—the sadness, the anxiousness, the uncertainty, the smallness, the shame, even—that the experience entailed? Terrible, wasn’t it? Do you recall what it was like to feel “on the...

My wife is employed in the disaster-relief sector of the international NGO space. She and her colleagues serve people who find themselves amid sudden need during unforeseen disasters. Recently, my wife’s work took her to the Canadian Prairies, a significant segment of which have been ravaged this...

The other day I was chatting with a friend over hot tea, discussing a change she was noticing in her significant other. His problems all seemed to boil down to low self-esteem, and she said, “I’m actually sort of surprised he’s insecure. I’ve always perceived him as being super-confident because...

Sr. Mary Grace, SV speaks to the places in us that feel bent over by shame, fear, lies, suffering, and disappointment. Drawing ...

I spent nearly two decades as a clinician in psychology, and the truth of the matter is I never would have gotten there had it not been for a couple of people in particular who saw in me what I could not see in myself. I was an abysmal failure in my high school days and academics were not something...